CHITTAGONG: Port city Jamaat called dawn-to-dusk hartal in greater Chittagong for Wednesday protesting the arrest of city Jamaat Ameer and secretary.           Besides, the party will stage rally at all upazilas and thanas on Tuesday.   Chittagong Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer M Ahsan

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has challenged the indictment against her in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. On behalf of Khaleda, her lawyer Advocate Asaduzzaman filed the writ Monday. On March 19, Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 indicted Khaleda Zia, her

DHAKA: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the stayed bail order to Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mufti Mohammad Wakkas in a police case over May 5 mayhem in 2013. A five-member bench headed by chief justice Mohammad Mozammel Hossain passed the order on Monday dismissing leave to

BRAHMANBARIA: The road communications on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet routes halted from Monday noon after indefinite strike called by Brahmanbaria District Transport Owners Association. The strike was enforced to press home their demands to stop plying of the locally-made shallow

DHAKA: The Supreme Court asked Jamaat-e-Islami leader Tofail Ahmed to surrender before a lower court by four-week on Monday. Tofail, also Bandarban’s Naikkhangchari upazila Parishad Chairman, is the prime accused of the 2012 Ramu violence, which refers to a series of attacks on

BAGERHAT: An Awami League activist was killed in mob beating in Bagerhat soon after he stabbed a BNP man to death in Gemarta Madrasa Bazar area under Sadar upazila of the district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Abul Kalam Azad, 25, JCD union Joint - General Secretary and

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday has extended bail to BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and another top four leaders till June 17. Metropolitan Magistrate Anwar Sadat passed the order after Fakhrul and four others appear before the court and sought bail extension.

DHAKA: Vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of China’s  National People’s Congress Yan Junqi is scheduled to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. The meeting will be held at Khaleda’s Gulshan political office in the city at 8:30pm.  BNP Chairperson’s Media

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has demanded to disband elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for its controversial activities.                                   The BNP chief came up with the demand while talking to journalists after

DHAKA: Badiul Alam Majumdar, Secretary of Shujan (Citizens for Good Governance), a civil society organization, on Sunday alleged that Rab is doing the job of police forces.   “At present, whatever Rab is doing, these work actually the job of police. Rab doing such job as police failed

MUNSHIGANJ: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia is scheduled to visit Munshiganj on May 24. She is expected to address a rally in town’s Launch Ghat area on that day while more than lakhs leader and activists are expected to join the programme. BNP district

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will form a three-member investigation committee headed by a former justice to probe into the Narayanjang abduction-killing of seven persons. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the disclosure while talking to

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Sunday deferred the prosecution argument in the war crimes case against Brahmanbaria Awami League leader Mobarak Hossain till May 18. A three-member of tribunal led-by ICT-1 chairman M Enayetur Rahim re-fixed the date after Mobarak’s

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Sunday deferred till October 8 the hearing of charge framing against 12 BNP leaders and activists including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a cocktail blast case. Dhaka-I additional metropolitan session judge Zakia Parvin passed the

DHAKA: BNP will stage a 4-day nonstop agitation program from 17 protesting the ongoing murder-disappearance-abduction in the country and shifting trial of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in two graft cases at the makeshift court at Bakshi Bazar Alia Madrasa ground.  BNP Joint Secretary

SUNAMGANJ: BNP observed half-day hartal in the district demanding the trace of missing UK expatiate BNP leader Mujibur Rahman Mujib. Leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies were seen picketing at different places and on the roads of the district town including Traffic

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia held a meeting with standing committee members of the party for discussing current socio-political situation of the country and their further movements. The meeting was held at party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office in the city around 9:05pm.

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League leader Dr Dipu Moni has said the bilateral ties between Bangladesh and India will be further strengthened with the new Indian government. The former foreign minister made the observation while talking to reporters during her visit to London, quoting PTI,

DHAKA: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Saturday said the democracy of the country is suffering. “There is no democracy in the country. It is suffering,” he said.   The former president of the country came up with the observation while addressing a general meeting of Jatiya Jubo

DHAKA: Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Saturday has expelled its four activists for breaching the rules and regulations of the organization. A release, signed by secretary of central BCL Sheikh M Rasel, disclosed the matter. The expelled students are: deputy sports secretary of BCL